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Ralph of Sudeley
- Marriage: Getha 141,160
- Died: 21 Dec 1057, England 141
- Buried: 1057, Peterborough Abbey, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England 141
 General Notes:
Weis' Ancestral Roots. . ., 235:21, Ralph, "Comes" of Hereford, married Getha 160
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141
Ralph, second son of Dreux and Godgifu, held Sudeley and Toddington, in Gloucestershire, and Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire. In 1051, when Godwine, Earl of Kent, rebelled and collected an army at Tetbury, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and Siward, Earl of Northumbria, went to the aid of the King at Gloucester, and Randulfus comes . . . de suo comitatu quot potuit congregavit. In the same year, he and Odda, Earl of Devon and Somerset, were appointed by the King to command the fleet. In 1055, he was sent with a numerous army to protect Hereford against Alfgar, the rebel Earl of Chester, and Griffin, his Welsh ally; but he and his horsemen fled before the battle was effectively joined, and Hereford was burnt by the Welsh. He married Getha. He died 21 Dec 1057, and was buried at Peterborough.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Sudeley), Vol. XIIA, p. 411-412
A pre-conquest Earldom of Hereford has been assigned to him, Ralph, son of Dreux, count of the Vexin and Goda, sister of Edward the Confessor. He is first credited with the Earldom of Worcester prior to 1049. On the landing of Eustace, comté de Boulogne, "Earl Ralph" is stated to have been one of those who brought assistance "de suo comitatu," but it is not by any means clear what is intended by "comitatu." When the great earldom of Swein was conficated and broken up, Ralph is presumed to have received Herefordshire, and to have been Earl of Hereford when he opposed Ælfgar's forces in 1055. He died 21 Dec 1057, and was buried in Peterborough Abbey.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Hereford), Vol. VI, pp. 446-447
Ralph married Getha 141.,160
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